file2html

JS convertor of files to HTML and CSS code

Requirements

• Promise API, polyfill
• Encoding API, polyfill
• Object.assign, polyfill

Supported formats

• Text file2html-text (.txt)
• Images file2html-image (.png, .jpg, .gif, .svg, .ico, .wbmp)
• OOXML Documents file2html-ooxml (.docx)
• OOXML Presentations (.pptx)
• OOXML Spreadsheets (.xlsx)
• ODF Text Files file2html-odf (.odt)
• DSV file2html-dsv (.csv, .tsv)
• FictionBook file2html-fiction-book (.fb2)
• EPUB file2html-epub (.epub)
• DjVu (.djvu, .djv)
• RTF (.rtf)
• WCBFF (.doc)

Usage

Installation

> npm i file2html

Installation of required engines for each file type:

> npm i file2html-text file2html-ooxml file2html-image 

Check supported formats to decide which engines you need.

Configuration

import * as file2html from 'file2html';
import TextReader from 'file2html-text';
import OOXMLReader from 'file2html-ooxml';
import ImageReader from 'file2html-image';

file2html.config({
    readers: [
        TextReader,
        OOXMLReader,
        ImageReader
    ]
});

File reading

file2html.read({
    fileBuffer, // ArrayBuffer
    meta // file2html.FileMetaInformation
}).then((file) => {
    // file is an instance of file2html.File type 
    const {styles, content} = file.getData();    
    
    // "render" a file content with styles
    document.body.innerHTML = styles + content;
});

FileMetaInformation

    {
        fileType: number; // optional
        mimeType: string; // optional
        name: string; // optional
        size: number; // optional
        creator: string; // optional
        createdAt: string; // optional
        modifiedAt: string; // optional
    }

File

    {
        getMeta () {
            // returns object of file2html.FileMetaInformation    
        }
    
        getData ()  {
            // returns object of file2html.FileData
        }
    }

FileData

    {
        meta: file2html.FileMetaInformation;
        styles: string; // css styles as a string
        content: string; // html markup as a string
    }

Showcase

StormFiles

Browser extension, file viewer:

• Chrome extension
• Firefox extension